Career
He is best remembered for his majestic residence in downtown Ponce (70 Cristina Street) and which today is the Carmen Solá de Pereira Ponce Cultural Center. From 1959 to 1965, the building was the first home of the Museo de Arte de Ponce and from 1991 to 1996 it was also the first headquarters of the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña. Ermelindo Salazar Schuck was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, to Pedro Juan Salazar Fournier and Luisa Schuck.
Salazar Schuck was a prominent landowner, merchant, and banker from Ponce.
In his life as a merchant, in 1885, he founded the Ponce Chamber of Commerce. In the area of finance, Salazar became one of the directors, and later president, of Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño, one of the largest and oldest in the Island.
On 27 April 1884 he was elected as a delegate to the Cadiz Cortes. On 28 November 1917, Salazar y Schuck was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Portuguese of Ponce.
Salazar is honored at the Ponce Tricentennial Park for his contributions to the municipality of Ponce.